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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200719
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SUMMARY:Seventh Sunday after Pentecost–G (II) - St. Vincent de Paul\, Confessor
DESCRIPTION:ST. VINCENT was born in 1576. In after-years\, when adviser of the queen and oracle of the Church in France\, he loved to recount how\, in his youth\, he had guarded his father’s pigs. Soon after his ordination he was captured by corsairs\, and carried into Barbary. He converted his renegade master\, and escaped with him to France. Appointed chaplain-general of the galleys of France\, his tender charity brought hope into those prisons where hitherto despair had reigned. A mother mourned her imprisoned son. Vincent put on his chains and took his place at the oar\, and gave him to his mother. His charity embraced the poor\, young and old\, provinces desolated by civil war\, Christians enslaved by the infidel. The poor man\, ignorant and degraded\, was to him the image of Him Who became as “a leper and no man.” “Turn the medal\,” he said\, “and you then will see Jesus Christ.” He went through the streets of Paris at night\, seeking the children who were left there to die. Once robbers rushed upon him\, thinking he carried a treasure\, but when he opened his cloak\, they recognized him and his burden\, and fell at his feet. Not only was St. Vincent the saviour of the poor\, but also of the rich\, for he taught them to do works of mercy. When the work for the foundlings was in danger of failing from want of funds\, he assembled the ladies of the Association of Charity. He bade his most fervent daughters be present to give the spur to the others. Then he said\, “Compassion and charity have made you adopt these little creatures as your children. You have been their mothers according to grace\, when their own mothers abandoned them. Cease to be their mothers\, that you may become their judges; their life and death are in your hands. I shall now take your votes: it is time to pronounce sentence” The tears of the assembly were his only answer\, and the work was continued. The Society of St. Vincent\, the Priests of the Mission\, and 25\,000 Sisters of Charity still comfort the afflicted with the charity of St. Vincent of Paul. He died in 1660.\nReflection.—Most people who profess piety ask advice of directors about their prayers and spiritual exercises. Few inquire whether they are not in danger of damnation from neglect of works of charity.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/seventh-sunday-after-pentecost-g-ii-st-vincent-de-paul-confessor/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200719
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SUMMARY:St. Camillus de Lellis\, Confessor–W (III) - St. Symphorosa & her Seven Sons\, Martyrs–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Popularly\, Camillus is the patron saint of the sick\, hospitals\, nurses and physicians. His assistance is also invoked against gambling. His mortal remains are located in the altar in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Rome\, along with several of his relics. Also on display is the Cross which allegedly spoke to Camillus\, and asked him\, “Why are you afraid? Do you not realize that this is not your work but mine?” which has become the motto associated with St. Camillus\, as well as healthcare workers who were inspired by him.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-camillus-de-lellis-confessor-w-iii-st-symphorosa-her-seven-sons-martyrs-r-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200717
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200718
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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SUMMARY:Ferial–G (IV) - St. Alexius\, Confessor–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:St. Alexius\, the son of the Senator Euphemian\, renounced all earthly things and departed as a pilgrim to Palestine. He returned after seven years and in his father’s house was taken for an indigent beggar. There he died unknown in 404.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-g-iv-st-alexius-confessor-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200716
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200717
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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SUMMARY:Ferial–G (IV) - Our Lady of Mount Carmel–W (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Simon Stock\, a holy youth of the County of Kent in England\, was told by Our Lady that he would join a religious order not yet known to the English. In due time Carmelites crossed the Channel\, and Simon entered the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The Carmelites in England chose Simon Stock as their prior general in 1245. Mary appeared to Simon on July 16\, 1251\, and gave him the scapular as an assurance of Her protection. Devotion to the scapular spread quickly throughout Christendom.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-g-iv-our-lady-of-mount-carmel-w-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200716
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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SUMMARY:St. Henry\, Emperor\, Confessor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:Henry\, the son of Henry\, Duke of Bavaria\, was chosen Emperor in 1002\, upon the death of his cousin\, Otto III. He became one of the strongest rulers of the Holy Roman Empire\, triumphing over many difficulties as a Christian statesman and warrior. He made frequent journeys through his empire to promote religion\, correct public abuses\, and prevent the oppression of the poor. According to the chronicles of the time\, when upon his return from an expedition against the Greeks in Italy\, he was taken sick at Monte Cassino\, he was miraculously cured through the intercession of St. Benedict\, founder of the abbey.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-henry-emperor-confessor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200715
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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SUMMARY:St. Bonaventure\, Bishop\, Confessor\, Doctor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:Bonaventure was born in the Papal States in 1221\, and became a Franciscan at the age of 20. He is called by the Church the Seraphic Doctor\, because the penetrating genius that informs his writings is ennobled by a burning love of God. In 1273\, he was created cardinal bishop of Albano. Pope Gregory X then entrusted Bonaventure with the direction of the Council of Lyons\, attended by schismatic Oriental clergy as well as by Catholics. His intense solicitude for souls separated from the Church drew the schismatics into temporary reunion with the Holy See. This was St. Bonaventure’s supreme labor of apostolic love. He died of exhaustion while the council was still in session.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-bonaventure-bishop-confessor-doctor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200713
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200714
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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SUMMARY:Ferial–G (IV)
DESCRIPTION:ST. EUGENIUS\, Bishop. THE episcopal see of Carthage had remained vacant twenty-four years\, when\, in 481\, Huneric permitted the Catholics on certain conditions to choose one who should fill it. The people\, impatient to enjoy the comfort of a pastor\, pitched upon Eugenius\, a citizen of Carthage\, eminent for his learning\, zeal\, piety\, and prudence. His charities to the distressed were excessive\, and he refused himself everything that he might give all to the poor. His virtue gained him the respect and esteem even of the\, Arians; but at length envy and blind zeal got the ascendant in their breasts\, and the king sent him an order never to sit on the episcopal throne\, preach to the people\, or admit into his chapel any Vandals\, among whom several were Catholics. The Saint boldly answered that the laws of God commanded him not to shut the door of His church to any that desired to serve Him in it. Huneric\, enraged at this answer\, persecuted the Catholics in various ways. Many nuns were so cruelly tortured that they died on the rack. Great numbers of bishops\, priests\, deacons\, and eminent Catholic laymen were banished to a desert filled with scorpions and venomous serpents. The people followed their bishops and priests with lighted tapers in their hands\, and mothers carried their little babes in their arms and laid them at the feet of the confessors\, all crying out with tears\, “Going yourselves to your crowns\, to whom do you leave us? Who will baptize our children? Who will impart to us the benefit of penance\, and discharge us from the bonds of sin by the favor of reconciliation and pardon? Who will bury us with solemn supplications at our death? By whom will the Divine Sacrifice be made? “ The Bishop Eugenius was spared in the first storm\, but afterwards was carried into the uninhabited desert country in the province of Tripolis\, and committed to the guard of Antony\, an inhuman Arian bishop\, who treated him with the utmost barbarity. Gontamund\, who succeeded Huneric\, recalled our Saint to Carthage\, opened the Catholic churches\, and allowed all the exiled priests to return. After reigning twelve years\, Gontamund died\, and his brother Thrasimund was called to the crown. Under this prince St. Eugenius was again banished\, and died in exile\, on the 13th of July\, 505\, in a monastery which he built and governed\, near Albi.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-g-iv-5/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200712
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200713
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SUMMARY:Sixth Sunday after Pentecost–G (II) - St. John Gualbert\, Abbot
DESCRIPTION:John Gualbert became a Benedictine monk at San Miniato. He fought actively against simony\, of which both his abbot\, Oberto\, and the Bishop of Florence\, Pietro Mezzabarba\, were guilty. Unwilling to compromise with them\, he left the monastery to lead a more perfect life. His attraction was for the cenobitic\, and not eremitic life\, so after staying for some time with the monks at Camaldoli\, he settled at Vallombrosa\, where he founded his monastery. The area surrounding his monastery at Vallombrosa was wild and deserted when he first arrived. John thought that it would be more conducive to contemplation and discipline if the grounds were better kept. But instead of a traditional garden\, he opted to have his monks plant trees (firs and pines mostly)\, creating a park and nature preserve to enhance the prayerful environment.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/sixth-sunday-after-pentecost-g-ii-st-john-gualbert-abbot/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200711
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200712
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SUMMARY:Our Lady on Saturdays–W (IV) - St. Pius I\, Pope\, Martyr–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:St Pius I governed the Church in the middle of the 2nd century during the reigns of the Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius] He was the ninth successor of Saint Peter] He decreed that Easter should only be kept on a Sunday. Although being credited with ordering the publication of the Liber Pontificalis\, compilation of that document was not started before the beginning of the 6th century. He is said to have built one of the oldest churches in Rome\, Santa Pudenziana.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/our-lady-on-saturdays-w-iv-st-pius-i-pope-martyr-r-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200710
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200711
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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UID:1642-1594339200-1594425599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:The Seven Holy Brothers\, Martyrs\, and Sts. Rufina & Secunda\, Virgins\, Martyrs–R (III)
DESCRIPTION:The Roman widow Felicitas and her seven sons were martyred in about the year 162. Pope Gregory the Great said of her\, “She was more than a martyr\, for seeing her seven children martyred before her eyes\, she was in some sort a martyr in each of them.” A century later\, Rufina and Secunda\, daughters of a wealthy Roman\, refused to marry two suitors who had apostatized from the Christian religion. They were scourged and beheaded.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/the-seven-holy-brothers-martyrs-and-sts-rufina-secunda-virgins-martyrs-r-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200710
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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SUMMARY:Ferial–G (IV)
DESCRIPTION:ST. EPHREM is the light and glory of the Syriac Church. A mere youth\, he entered on the religious life at Nisibis\, his native place. Long years of retirement taught him the science of the Saints\, and then God called him to Edessa\, there to teach what he had learned so well. He defended the Faith against heresies\, in books which have made him known as the Prophet of the Syrians. Crowds hung upon his words. Tears used to stop his voice when he preached. He trembled and made his hearers tremble at the thought of God’s judgments; but he found in compunction and humility the way to peace\, and he rested with unshaken confidence in the mercy of our blessed Lord. “I am setting out\,” he says\, speaking of his own death\, “I am setting out on a journey hard and dangerous. Thee\, O Son of God\, I have taken for my Viaticum. When I am hungry\, I will feed on Thee. The infernal fire will not venture near me\, for it cannot bear the fragrance of Thy Body and Thy Blood.” His hymns won the hearts of the people\, drove out the hymns of the Gnostic heretics\, and gained for him the title which he bears in the Syriac Liturgy to this day—“the Harp of the Holy Ghost.” Passionate as he was by nature\, from the time he entered religion no one ever saw him angry. Abounding in labors till the last\, he toiled for the suffering poor at Edessa in the famine of 378\, and there lay down to die in extreme old age. What was the secret of success so various and so complete? Humility\, which made him distrust himself and trust God. Till his death\, he wept for the slight sins committed in the thoughtlessness of boyhood. He refused the dignity of the priesthood. “I\,” he told St. Basil\, whom he went to see at the bidding of the Holy Spirit\, “I am that Ephrem who has wandered from the path of heaven.” Then bursting into tears\, he cried out\, “O my father\, have pity on a sinful wretch\, and lead me on the narrow way.”
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-g-iv-4/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200708
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200709
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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UID:1640-1594166400-1594252799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Elizabeth\, Queen of Portugal\, Widow–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth showed an early enthusiasm for her Faith. She said the full Divine Office daily\, fasted and did other penance\, as well as attended twice-daily choral Masses. Religious fervor was common in her family\, as she could count several members of her family who were already venerated as saints. The most notable example is her great-aunt\, St. Elizabeth of Hungary\, after whom she was named.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-elizabeth-queen-of-portugal-widow-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200707
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200708
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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UID:1639-1594080000-1594166399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Sts. Cyril & Methodius\, Bishops\, Confessors–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:They were 9th century Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessalonica\, Macedonia\, who became Christian missionaries among the Slavic peoples of the Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs\, for which they received the title “Apostles to the Slavs.” They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet\, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic. After their deaths\, their pupils continued their missionary work among other Slavs. Both brothers are venerated in the Orthodox Church as saints with the title of “equal-to-apostles.” In 1880\, Pope Leo XIII introduced their feast into the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/sts-cyril-methodius-bishops-confessors-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200707
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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UID:1638-1593993600-1594079999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Ferial–G (IV)
DESCRIPTION:THE name of Palladius shows this Saint to have been a Roman\, and most authors agree that he was deacon of the Church of Rome. At least St. Prosper\, in his chronicle\, informs us that when Agricola\, a noted Pelagian\, had corrupted the churches of Britain by introducing that pestilential heresy\, Pope Celestine\, at the instance of Palladius the deacon\, in 429\, sent thither St. Germanus\, Bishop of Auxerre\, in quality of his legate\, who\, having ejected the heretics\, brought back the Britons to the Catholic faith. In 431 Pope Celestine sent Palladius\, the first bishop\, to the Scots then believing in Christ. The Irish writers of the lives of St. Patrick say that St. Palladius had preached in Ireland a little before St. Patrick\, but that he was soon banished by the King of Leinster\, and returned to North Britain\, where he had first opened his mission. There seems to be no doubt that he was sent to the whole nation of the Scots\, several colonies of whom had passed from Ireland into North Britain\, and possessed themselves of part of the country since called Scotland. After St. Palladius had left Ireland\, he arrived among the Scots in North Britain\, according to St. Prosper\, in the consulate of Bassus and Antochius\, in the year of Christ 431. He preached there with great zeal\, and formed a considerable Church. The Scottish historians tell us that the Faith was planted in North Britain about the year 200\, in the time of King Donald\, when Victor was Pope of Rome. But they all acknowledge that Palladius was the first bishop in that country\, and style him their first apostle. The Saint died at Fordun\, fifteen miles from Aberdeen\, about the year 450.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/ferial-g-iv-3/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200705
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200706
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
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UID:1637-1593907200-1593993599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Fifth Sunday after Pentecost–G (II) - St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria\, Confessor
DESCRIPTION:After his death\, a number of cures were attributed to the intercession of Anthony Mary Zaccaria. 27 years after his death\, his body was found to be incorrupt. His mortal remains are now enshrined at the Church of St. Barnabas in Milan\, Italy. He was canonized by Pope Leo XIII on 27 May 1897. His feast day is celebrated on 5 July. He is a patron saint of physicians.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/fifth-sunday-after-pentecost-g-ii-st-anthony-mary-zaccaria-confessor/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200704
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200705
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UID:1636-1593820800-1593907199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:First Saturday - Our Lady on Saturdays–W (IV)
DESCRIPTION:ST. BERTHA\, Widow\, Abbess. BERTHA was the daughter of Count Rigobert and Umana\, related to one of the kings of Kent in England. In the twentieth year of her age she was married to Sigefroi\, by whom she had five daughters\, two of whom\, Gertrude and Deotila\, are Saints. After her husband’s death she put on the veil in the nunnery which she had built at Blangy in Artois\, a little distance from Hesdin. Her daughters Gertrude and Deotila followed her example. She was persecuted by Roger\, or Rotgar\, who endeavored to asperse her with King Thierri III.\, to revenge his being refused Gertrude in marriage. But this prince\, convinced of the innocence of Bertha\, then abbess over her nunnery\, gave her a kind reception and took her under his protection. On her return to Blangy\, Bertha finished her nunnery and caused three churches to be built\, one in honor of St. Omer\, another she called after St. Vaast\, and the third in honor of St. Martin of Tours. And then\, after establishing a regular observance in her community\, she left St. Deotila abbess in her stead\, and shut herself in a cell\, to pass the remainder of her days in prayer. She died about the year 725. A great part of her relics are kept at Blangy.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/first-saturday-our-lady-on-saturdays-w-iv-2/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200704
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UID:1635-1593734400-1593820799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:First Friday - St. Irenaeus\, Bishop\, Martyr–R (III)
DESCRIPTION:ST. IRENÆUS was born about the year 120. He was a Grecian\, probably a native of Lesser Asia. His parents\, who were Christians\, placed him under the care of the great St. Polycarp\, Bishop of Smyrna. It was in so holy a school that he learned that sacred science which rendered him afterward a great ornament of the Church and the terror of her enemies. St. Polycarp cultivated his rising genius\, and formed his mind to piety by precepts and example; and the zealous scholar was careful to reap all the advantages which were offered him by the happiness of such a master. Such was his veneration for his tutor’s sanctity that he observed every action and whatever be saw in that holy man\, the better to copy his example and learn his spirit. He listened to his instructions with an insatiable ardor\, and so deeply did he engrave them on his heart that the impressions remained most lively even to his old age. In order to confute the heresies of his age\, this father made himself acquainted with the most absurd conceits of their philosophers\, by which means he was qualified to trace up every error to its sources and set it in its full light. St. Polycarp sent St. Irenæus into Gaul\, in company with some priest; he was himself ordained priest of the Church of Lyons by St. Pothinus. St. Pothinus having glorified God by his happy death\, in the year 177\, our Saint was chosen the second Bishop of Lyons. By his preaching\, he in a short time converted almost that whole country to the Faith. He wrote several works against heresy\, and at last\, with many others\, suffered martyrdom about the year 202\, under the Emperor Severus\, at Lyons.\nReflection.—Fathers and mothers\, and heads of families\, spiritual and temporal\, should bear in mind that inferiors “will not be corrected by words” alone\, but that example is likewise needful.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/first-friday-st-irenaeus-bishop-martyr-r-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200703
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T170022Z
UID:1634-1593648000-1593734399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Visitation of the Blessed Virgin–W (II) - Sts. Processus and Martinianus\, Martyrs–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Mary visits her relative Elizabeth; they are both pregnant. Mary is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant with John the Baptist. Mary left Nazareth immediately after the Annunciation and went “into the hill country…into a city of Judah” (Luke 1:39) to attend her cousin Elizabeth. There are several possibilities as to exactly which city this was\, including Hebron\, south of Jerusalem\, and Ein Karem. The journey was about 100 miles and Elizabeth was in the sixth month before Mary came
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/visitation-of-the-blessed-virgin-w-ii-sts-processus-and-martinianus-martyrs-r-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200702
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UID:1633-1593561600-1593647999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:FEAST OF THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS–R (I)
DESCRIPTION:This feast was instituted only in 1849\, but the devotion is as old as Christianity. The early Fathers say that the Church was born from the pierced side of Christ\, and that the Sacraments were brought forth through His Blood. The special beauty of this feast is its centering of our attention directly on the Blood of Christ\, a short cut to the heart of revelation. In these days we need to think of the Passion of Christ; we do not know how God is going to test us. Devotion to the Precious Blood is a fundamental\, sane approach to God. It is hard and painful; it will help us to steel our own hearts against weakness.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/feast-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-r-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200701
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T170022Z
UID:1632-1593475200-1593561599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Commemoration of St. Paul\, Apostle–R (III) (Comm. St. Peter\, Apostle)
DESCRIPTION:Saul\, the youthful Pharisee of Jerusalem who stood by as a witness at the death of the first martyr\, Stephen\, grew into manhood with a consuming desire to destroy the religious followers of Jesus. Three years after the crucifixion of Christ\, while in the very act of extending his persecution of the Christians from Jerusalem to Damascus\, Saul was confronted by his Savior with the question\, “Why dost thou persecute me?” In the dazzling light of this vision\, Saul was called to a double vocation: to be a chosen vessel to carry the name of Jesus among nations\, and to suffer much for Christ. In this new life\, Saul was renamed Paul.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/commemoration-of-st-paul-apostle-r-iii-comm-st-peter-apostle/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200629
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200630
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SUMMARY:THE HOLY APOSTLES PETER & PAUL–R (I)
DESCRIPTION:PETER was of Bethsaida in Galilee\, and as he was fishing on the lake was called by Our Lord to be one of His apostles. He was poor and unlearned\, but candid\, eager\, and loving. In his heart\, first of all\, grew up the conviction\, and from his lips came the confession\, “Thou art the Christ\, the Son of the living God;” and so Our Lord chose him\, and fitted him to be the Rock of His Church\, His Vicar on earth\, the head and prince of His apostles\, the centre and very principle of the Church’s oneness\, the source of all spiritual powers\, and the unerring teacher of His truth. All Scripture is alive with him; but after Pentecost he stands out in the full grandeur of his office. He fills the vacant apostolic throne; admits the Jews by thousands into the fold; opens it to the Gentiles in the person of Cornelius; founds\, and for a time rules\, the Church at Antioch\, and sends Mark to found that of Alexandria. Ten years after the Ascension he went to Rome\, the centre of the majestic Roman Empire\, where were gathered the glories and the wealth of the earth and all the powers of evil. There he established his Chair\, and for twenty-five years labored with St. Paul in building up the great Roman Church. He was crucified by order of Nero\, and buried on the Vatican Hill. He wrote two Epistles\, and suggested and approved the Gospel of St. Mark. Two hundred and sixty years after St. Peter’s martyrdom came the open triumph of the Church. Pope St. Sylvester\, with bishops and clergy and the whole body of the faithful\, went through Rome in procession to the Vatican Hill\, singing the praises of God till the seven hills rang again. The first Christian emperor\, laying aside his diadem and his robes of state\, began to dig the foundations of St. Peter’s Church. And now on the site of that old church stands the noblest temple ever raised by man; beneath a towering canopy lie the great apostles\, in death\, as in life\, undivided; and there is the Chair of St. Peter. All around rest the martyrs of Christ—Popes\, Saints\, Doctors\, from east and west—and high over all\, the words\, “Thou art Peter\, and on this Rock I will build My Church.” It is the threshold of the apostles and the centre of the world.\nReflection.—Peter still lives on in his successors\, and rules and feeds the flock committed to him. The reality of our devotion to him is the surest test of the purity of our faith.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/the-holy-apostles-peter-paul-r-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200629
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UID:1630-1593302400-1593388799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Fourth Sunday after Pentecost–G (II)
DESCRIPTION:The Synod of Seligenstadt (1022) mentions vigils on the eves of Christmas\, Epiphany\, the feast of the Apostles\, the Assumption of Mary\, St. Laurence\, and All Saints\, besides the fast of two weeks before the Nativity of St. John. After the eleventh century the fast\, Office\, and Mass of the nocturnal vigil were transferred to the day before the feast; and even now [1909] the liturgy of the Holy Saturday (vigil of Easter) shows\, in all its parts\, that originally it was not kept on the morning of Saturday\, but during Easter Night.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/fourth-sunday-after-pentecost-g-ii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200628
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170020Z
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UID:1629-1593216000-1593302399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Our Lady on Saturdays–W (IV)
DESCRIPTION:LADISLAS the First\, son of Bela\, King of Hungary\, was born in 1041. By the pertinacious importunity of the people he was compelled\, much against his own inclination\, to ascend the throne\, in 1080. He restored the good laws and discipline which St. Stephen had established\, and which seem to have been obliterated by the confusion of the times. Chastity\, meekness\, gravity\, charity\, and piety were from his infancy the distinguishing parts of his character; avarice and ambition were his sovereign aversion\, so perfectly had the maxims of the Gospel extinguished in him all propensity to those base passions. His life in the palace was most austere; he was frugal and abstemious\, but most liberal to the Church and the poor. Vanity\, pleasure\, or idle amusements had no share in his actions or time\, because all his moments were consecrated to the exercises of religion and the duties of his station\, in which he had only the divine will in view\, and sought only God’s greater honor. He watched over a strict and impartial administration of justice\, was generous and merciful to his enemies\, and vigorous in the defense of his country and the Church. He drove the Huns out of his territories\, and vanquished the Poles\, Russians\, and Tartars. He was preparing to command\, as general-in-chief\, the great expedition of the Christians against the Saracens for the recovery of the Holy Land\, when God called him to Himself\, on the 30th of July\, 1095.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/our-lady-on-saturdays-w-iv-2/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200626
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200627
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170020Z
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UID:1628-1593129600-1593215999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Sts. John & Paul\, Martyrs–R (III)
DESCRIPTION:THESE two Saints were both officers in the army under Julian the Apostate\, and received the crown of martyrdom\, probably in 362. They glorified God by a double victory; they despised the honors of the world\, and triumphed over its threats and torments. They saw many wicked men prosper in their impiety\, but were not dazzled by their example. They considered that worldly prosperity which attends impunity in sin is the most dreadful of all judgments; and how false and short-lived was this glittering prosperity of Julian\, who in a moment fell into the pit which he himself had dug! But the martyrs\, by the momentary labor of their conflict\, purchased an immense weight of never-fading glory; their torments were\, by their heroic patience and invincible virtue and fidelity\, a spectacle worthy of God\, Who looked down upon them from the throne of His glory\, and held His arm stretched out to strengthen them\, and to put on their heads immortal crowns in the happy moment of their victory.\nReflection.—The Saints always accounted that they had done nothing for Christ so long as they had not resisted to blood\, and by pouring forth the last drop completed their sacrifice. Every action of our lives ought to spring from this fervent motive\, and we should consecrate ourselves to the divine service with our whole strength; we must always bear in mind that we owe to God all that we are\, and\, after all we can do\, are unprofitable servants\, and do only what we are bound to do.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/sts-john-paul-martyrs-r-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200626
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170020Z
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UID:1627-1593043200-1593129599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. William\, Abbot–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:According to the Vita composed to support his candidacy for sainthood\, William died on Easter Sunday 1202\, though the actual year was 1203. Numerous miracles were reported at his grave\, and in 1218 the Archbishop of Lund\, Anders Sunesen\, requested that Pope Honorius III appoint a local commission to investigate the claims for William’s sanctity. Their report was presumably sent to Rome\, where it languished for some time. Then\, in January 1224\, William was canonized by Honorius\, who acted on additional information provided by Cardinal Gregorius de Crescentio\, recently returned from a papal legation to Denmark. A new church was constructed at Œbelholt Abbey and William’s remains were moved there in 1238.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-william-abbot-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200625
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170019Z
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UID:1626-1592956800-1593043199@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST–W (I)
DESCRIPTION:THE birth of St. John was foretold by an angel of the Lord to his father\, Zachary\, who was offering incense in the Temple. It was the office of St. John to prepare the way for Christ\, and before he was born into the world he began to live for the Incarnate God. Even in the womb he knew the presence of Jesus and of Mary\, and he leaped with joy at the glad coming of the son of man. In his youth he remained hidden\, because He for Whom he waited was hidden also. But before Christ’s public life began\, a divine impulse led St. John into the desert; there\, with locusts for his food and haircloth on his skin\, in silence and in prayer\, he chastened his own soul. Then\, as crowds broke in upon his solitude\, he warned them to flee from the wrath to come\, and gave them the baptism of penance\, while they confessed their sins. At last there stood in the crowd One Whom St. John did not know\, till a voice within told him that it was his Lord. With the baptism of St. John\, Christ began His penance for the sins of His people\, and St. John saw the Holy Ghost descend in bodily form upon Him. Then the Saint’s work was done. He had but to point his own disciples to the Lamb\, he had but to decrease as Christ increased. He saw all men leave him and go after Christ. “I told you\,” he said\, “that I am not the Christ. The friend of the Bridegroom rejoiceth because of the Bridegroom’s voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled.” St. John had been cast into the fortress of Machærus by a worthless tyrant whose crimes be had rebuked\, and he was to remain there till he was beheaded\, at the will of a girl who danced before this wretched king. In this time of despair\, if St. John could have known despair\, some of his old disciples visited him. St. John did not speak to them of himself\, but he sent them to Christ\, that they might see the proofs of His mission. Then the Eternal Truth pronounced the panegyric of the Saint who had lived and breathed for Him alone: “Verily I say unto you\, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist”\nReflection.—St. John was great before God because he forgot himself and lived for Jesus Christ\, Who is the source of all greatness. Remember that you are nothing; your own will and your own desires can only lead to misery and sin. Therefore sacrifice every day some one of your natural inclinations to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord\, and learn little by little to lose yourself in Him.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/nativity-of-st-john-the-baptist-w-i/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200624
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T170018Z
UID:1625-1592870400-1592956799@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Vigil of St. John the Baptist–V (II)
DESCRIPTION:The important feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist is preceded by a vigil. An angel announced to the saint’s father\, Zachary\, a priest of the house of Aaron\, that the child should be called John and that many would rejoice in his birth. God had chosen John to be the herald of mankind’s Redeemer\, the morning star to usher in the daylight of justice and of truth. Therefore\, he was sanctified in his mother’s womb\, when Elizabeth was honored by a visit from the Virgin Mother of God\, carrying Christ in her body. In like manner\, Jesus today gives sanctifying joy to the missionary precursors whom He calls to go before Him into pagan lands.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/vigil-of-st-john-the-baptist-v-ii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200623
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T170018Z
UID:1624-1592784000-1592870399@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:St. Paulinus\, Bishop\, Confessor–W (III)
DESCRIPTION:Saint Paulinus was an early Christian\, who\, along with a priest\, deacon and soldier\, -all of whose names were forgotten through time- suffered martyrdom in 67. Paulinus is believed to have been converted and sent by St. Peter\, whom he met at Antioch\, to Lucca. He is believed to be the first Bishop of Lucca.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/st-paulinus-bishop-confessor-w-iii/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200622
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T170018Z
UID:1623-1592697600-1592783999@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Third Sunday after Pentecost–G (II) - St. Aloysius Gonzaga\, Confessor
DESCRIPTION:Aloysius Gonzaga\, S.J. (Italian: Luigi Gonzaga; March 9\, 1568 – June 21\, 1591) was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College\, he died as a result of caring for the victims of an epidemic. He was beatified in 1605\, and canonized in 1726.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/third-sunday-after-pentecost-g-ii-st-aloysius-gonzaga-confessor/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200621
DTSTAMP:20260404T193215
CREATED:20200130T170017Z
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UID:1622-1592611200-1592697599@marylandcatholicwomen.com
SUMMARY:Our Lady on Saturdays–W (IV) - St. Silverius\, Pope\, Martyr–R (Comm.)
DESCRIPTION:Pope Silverius was later recognized as a saint by popular acclamation\, and is now the patron saint of the island of Ponza\, Italy. The first mention of his name in a list of saints dates to the 11th century. He is also called Saint Silverius (San Silverio). According to Ponza Islands legend\, fishermen were in a small boat in a storm off Palmarola and they called on Saint Silverius for help. An apparition of Saint Silverius called them to Palmarola\, where they survived. This miracle made him venerated as a saint.
URL:https://marylandcatholicwomen.com/event/our-lady-on-saturdays-w-iv-st-silverius-pope-martyr-r-comm/
CATEGORIES:Church Calendar
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